Bücher von Camille Flammarion

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Born in 1842, Camille Flammarion was a French astronomer who wrote many popular books about science and astronomy, together with a number of novels which we would now consider to be science fiction. He was a contemporary of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, though his works never achieved their level of popularity.Omega: The Last Days of the World is an English translation of Flammarion¿s novel La Fin du Monde, published in 1893. The book¿s fictional premise is the discovery of a comet on a collision course with the Earth in the 25th century. However, this is mostly a pretext on which Flammarion can hang his interesting scientific speculations about how the world will end, together with philosophical thoughts about war and religion. Much of the scientific description he uses in the book, while accurately representing the knowledge and thinking of his time, has today been superseded by modern discoveries. For example, we now know the source of the Sun¿s energy to be nuclear fusion rather than being due to gravitational contraction and the constant infall of meteorites.When talking about the ills of society, however, Flammarion could well be talking about today¿s world. For example, he excoriates the vast waste of society¿s resources on war, and demonstrates how much more productive each nation¿s economy would be without it. He also depicts the media of his future world as having been entirely taken over by commercial interests, publishing only what will excite the greatest number of readers rather than serving the public interest.Omega ranges over a vast period of time, from prehistory through to millions of years in the future when mankind has been reduced to the last two doomed individuals. Nevertheless, the book ends on a hopeful and inspiring note.

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The Wonders of the Heavens is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1871.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

French astronomer Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) firmly believed that science should not be the preserve of elites. His passion for the discoveries of his time is palpable throughout this classic introduction to astronomy, which stands as a landmark in the history of popular science writing. It features 360 illustrations, including highly detailed maps of the Moon and Mars, the latter being of special interest for Flammarion as he compared and contrasted it with the Earth. Originally published in 1880, the work won the approval of the Academie Francaise and the Minister of Public Instruction. This reissue is of the version that appeared in 1881 after 50,000 copies had already reached an enthusiastic readership. Its translation into English as Popular Astronomy (1894) and another accessible work by Flammarion, Le Monde avant la creation de l'homme (1886), are also reissued in this series.

French astronomer Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) called the study of the heavens 'the science which concerns us most'. He believed that learning 'what place we occupy in the infinite' could delight and instruct, and might even promote an end to war and strife. Flammarion dedicated the present work to Francois Arago (1786-1853), author of earlier work on popular astronomy. Since Arago's time, the capabilities of telescopes and other instruments had vastly improved, advancing understanding in areas such as the composition of stars. Flammarion sought to bring this new knowledge to the public in a charming yet 'scrupulously exact' style. His highly illustrated introduction to astronomy succeeded in reaching a wide readership, selling over 100,000 French copies before this English translation appeared in 1894. The 1881 French version and Flammarion's work on the origins of the Earth, Le Monde avant la creation de l'homme (1886), are also reissued in this series.

French astronomer Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) won acclaim for bringing science to a general readership. His Astronomie populaire (1880) and its translation into English as Popular Astronomy (1894) are both reissued in this series. The present work, on the origins of the Earth and humankind, sold tens of thousands of copies. Flammarion's original purpose was to update Zimmermann's Le monde avant la creation de l'homme, published a quarter of a century earlier. However, scientific understanding had progressed so much that he decided to rewrite the work completely. First published in 1886, it contains some 400 wood engravings depicting dramatic landscapes, dinosaurs, fossils and much more. Ranging from early chapters on the universe and solar system, through to later discussion of the emergence of humankind after aeons of evolution, this book will prove an absorbing read for those interested in a nineteenth-century perspective on the origins of life.

First published in 1922, this book contains the second volume of Nicolas Camille Flammarion's ¿Death and its Mystery¿, which deals with the age-old question of what happens when you die. In this volume, Flammarion concentrates on the actual moment of death and the phenomenon of people experiencing visions, apparitions, and manifestations of the dying at the precise moment of their passing. This fascinating book explores various historical cases of such purported experiences and attempts to examine their validity in light of scientific facts. Contents include: ¿The Positive Method¿, ¿Phantasms of the Living¿, ¿Thought as a Generator of Images Projected to a Distance¿, ¿Apparitions of the Dying Some Time Before Death¿, ¿Manifestations of the Dying Some Time Before Death¿, ¿The Visioning of Death Scenes¿, ¿Various Warnings Preceding or Announcing Death¿, ¿Mental Impressions of Deaths of Accidents at a Distance¿, ¿Deaths Announced by Noises, Blows Struck, by an Unexplained Uproar, by Physical Phenomenä, etc. Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS (1842¿1925) was a French author and astronomer. A prolific writer, he produced over fifty books including science fiction novels, works on astronomy, and works on physical research. Other titles by this author include: ¿The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds¿ (1862), ¿Real and Imaginary Worlds¿ (1865), and ¿God in Nature¿ (1866). Read & Co. Science is proudly republishing this classic work in a new edition complete with introductory poems by Emily Dickinson and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

On ne se souvient pas toujours des rêves. Pour saisir un rêve au vol, il faut être réveillé assez brusquement et y porter une vive attention, car rien ne s'efface plus vite que le souvenir d'un rêve. En général, c'est l'affaire d'une seconde ou deux, et si on ne le fixe immédiatement, il s'évanouit... comme un songe. Un grand nombre d'auteurs assurent qu'on ne rêve que le matin, avant de se réveiller, ou le soir en s'endormant. C'est là une erreur. Il suffit de se réveiller ou de réveiller quelqu'un à une heure quelconque de la nuit pour constater que l'on rêve toujours, ou presque toujours. Mais on ne se souvient pas toujours ; on ne se souvient même pas souvent, de même que, d'ailleurs, nous ne nous souvenons pas des trois quarts des pensées qui ont traversé notre cerveau pendant le jour. En général, on rêve aux choses dont on s'occupe et aux personnes que l'on connaît. Cependant, il y a des exceptions bizarres, et les pensées les plus intenses du jour n'ont parfois aucun retentissement durant le sommeil suivant.Les attitudes du sommeil tendent à un équilibre passif. Toutes les activités sensorielles s'obscurcissent par degrés et l'oubli du monde extérieur arrive par transitions insensibles, comme si l'âme se retirait lentement vers ses derniers refuges. Les paupières se ferment et l'oeil s'endort le premier. Le toucher perd ses facultés de perception et s'endort ensuite. L'odorat s'assoupit à son tour. L'oreille reste la dernière, sentinelle vigilante, pour nous avertir en cas de danger, mais elle finit aussi par s'assoupir. Alors le sommeil est complet et le monde des rêves s'ouvre devant la pensée avec sa diversité indéfinie.